Please provide ideas, feedback, and suggestions for my community garden drip irrigation project
I manage a community garden in which myself and a handful of elderly folks all garden as a group, there are no individual plots.
I want to improve our irrigation to be as efficient as possible to save water and provide ideal customized hydration for each crop.
The idea is to run a 3/4” loop off of a hose bib 46 meters around the interior perimeter of the garden feeding 1/2” distribution lines on the sides of each box that then will branch into 1/4” lines to drip emitters on individual plants and micro sprayers for area crops.
I think my plan is likely over engineered and I imagine that many businesses wouldn’t plan to do it this way because of excessive material cost. But, I want it to be as close to ideal as possible
I believe that the 1/2” distribution in particular is excessive but my fellow gardeners get easily frustrated and will cut up tubing that gets in their way so I want to limit the run lengths of the 1/4” into the bed as much as possible. I hope this will also help with pressure.
Criticism, comments, suggestions, ponderances and accolades are all welcomed.
Thank you